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1mirrordrum
Here Are The Suggested Rules of the Game:
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3. The title of the book cited must have one word, at least, which is the same as a word in the previous title.
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5. The repeated word must be spelled exactly as the word was spelled in the previous title, e.g., "prune" is not the same word as "prunes," and "loyal" is not the same word as "loyalty."
6. The repeated word must be in the title as shown in a LT library listing, or on the title page of the book. A sub-title or a series name can be included if the sub-title or series name is included in the title of a LT library listing, or is printed on the title page of the book.
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311jacqueline065
Today, 4:27pm
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
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6. The repeated word must be in the title as shown in a LT library listing, or on the title page of the book. A sub-title or a series name can be included if the sub-title or series name is included in the title of a LT library listing, or is printed on the title page of the book.
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311jacqueline065
Today, 4:27pm
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
2MDGentleReader
A few more words to work with...
Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by Joseph P. Lash
Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by Joseph P. Lash
6PaperbackPirate
Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood by Laurie Notaro - read last year
9RachelSteiner
//Quiet//
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Read it in my teens, on a war story binge.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Read it in my teens, on a war story binge.
11SylviaC
Men Who March Away : Poems of the First World War edited by I. M. Parsons
13tropics
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
14PaperbackPirate
Raising Milk Goats Successfully by Gail Luttmann - read in 1993
16jacqueline065
Milk In My Coffee by Eric Jerome Dickey
17lnkvisitor
My Life and Easy Times by Patrick Campbell
18jacqueline065
Sleep Don't Come Easy by Victor McGlothin
19lnkvisitor
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
24jacqueline065
Moon of Two Dark Horses by Sally Keehn
26jacqueline065
Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
29lnkvisitor
The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley
30linsleo
Out of Balance by Angela Lam Turpin
31lnkvisitor
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32Schmerguls
//Balance//
4866. FDR's Funeral Train A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance, by Robert Klara (read 1 Oct 2011)
4866. FDR's Funeral Train A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance, by Robert Klara (read 1 Oct 2011)
35LynnB
All My Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman. Read in 2008.
42lnkvisitor
Fair Stood the Wind For France by H. E. Bates
43SylviaC
The Stream that Stood Still by Beverley Nichols
50gbill
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
51PaperbackPirate
Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: New Insights for Improving Schools by Richard Dufour - tbr
52rolandperkins
Disappearing Languages: some Insights from Hawaiian,
Scottish Gaelic, and Yiddish by Roland F. Perkins
Scottish Gaelic, and Yiddish by Roland F. Perkins
55siubhank
Some Can Whistle by Larry McMurtry (read 4-17-1992)
57LindaJ57
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Penny into a Radio, Make a Flood Alarm with an Aspirin, Change Milk into Plastic, Extract Water and Electricity from Thin Air, Turn On a TV with Your Ring, and Other Amazing Feats
by Cy Tymony
by Cy Tymony
58ellenflorman
Radio Days by Woody Allen
60PaperbackPirate
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding - read around 2000, was v.g.
63lnkvisitor
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
64rolandperkins
Three Years a Soldier: the Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery
by George Perkins*
ed. by Richard N. Griffin
*great-grandfather of rolandperkins and of editor
Richard Griffin
by George Perkins*
ed. by Richard N. Griffin
*great-grandfather of rolandperkins and of editor
Richard Griffin
66PaperbackPirate
Private Parts by Howard Stern - read over 9 years ago
67lnkvisitor
Character Parts by John Mortimer
68hazeljune
Girl Parts By John M. Cusick
70hazeljune
The Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
71Schmerguls
//Four//
3764. Letters from a Lost Generation The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (read 26 June 2003)
3764. Letters from a Lost Generation The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (read 26 June 2003)
72lnkvisitor
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74lnkvisitor
#73 played on #71 which wrongly played on #69, missing #70.
playing on #70
The Good Loo Guide. Where to go in London by Jonathan Routh
playing on #70
The Good Loo Guide. Where to go in London by Jonathan Routh
75PaperbackPirate
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76mirrordrum
//girls'
Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George
read 3 or 4 times since i first discovered Anne George in the 2000s.
Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George
read 3 or 4 times since i first discovered Anne George in the 2000s.
77lnkvisitor
Night Train by Martin Amis
78PaperbackPirate
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81mirrordrum
//son//
Son et lumière. The story of the town (i.e. Royal Tunbridge Wells) from 1606 until the present day. by John Martyn Hepworth
i know nothing about it. just flashed on son et lumière and fossicked around till i found a book in English with that in the title.
Son et lumière. The story of the town (i.e. Royal Tunbridge Wells) from 1606 until the present day. by John Martyn Hepworth
i know nothing about it. just flashed on son et lumière and fossicked around till i found a book in English with that in the title.
83hazeljune
The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
85Boobalack
//Actually, the word "of" is in both #70 and #71, lnkvisitor.//
Playing on #71
The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
//Maybe saying which word we're using isn't such a good idea, after all, because of the above confusion. (?)//
Playing on #71
The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
//Maybe saying which word we're using isn't such a good idea, after all, because of the above confusion. (?)//
87hazeljune
The Greatest Show on Earth by Vivian French
88SylviaC
If the Earth Were a Few Feet in Diameter by Joe Miller
92lnkvisitor
(>85 Boobalack:: Yes, sorry for the confusion, completely missed the "of")
Sam the Sudden by P. G. Wodehouse
Sam the Sudden by P. G. Wodehouse
93mirrordrum
//92--i've done that too, inkv. easy to miss. that's why i always put at the top the word on which i'm playing. also helps me make fewer errors. :)
94hazeljune
My Search for the Son of Sam by George Calohan
96Boobalack
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku
by Michio Kaku
98Schmerguls
//Atomic//
2457. Tennozan The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb by George Feifer (read 12 Aug 1992)
Sorry about #71--I edited my entry several times to try to get an unused title, and when I found one failed to check if somebody meantime has posted a new title.
Thanks, Boobalack, for saving me even though I did not indicate the right word...
2457. Tennozan The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb by George Feifer (read 12 Aug 1992)
Sorry about #71--I edited my entry several times to try to get an unused title, and when I found one failed to check if somebody meantime has posted a new title.
Thanks, Boobalack, for saving me even though I did not indicate the right word...
109ellenflorman
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
111jacqueline065
The Haunting of Derek Stone: The Ghost Road by Tony Abbott
114ellenflorman
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
118hazeljune
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt, I am reading and loving at the moment.
123jacqueline065
Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
130jacqueline065
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Spears
131rolandperkins
The Paradoxes of Mister Pond by G. K. Chesterton
132hazeljune
On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson
133jbbarret
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
134hazeljune
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
139JamesBoswell
//Batman//
Batman uppon Bartholome : his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and ammended: with such additions as are requisite, unto every several booke: taken foorth of the most approved authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie by Anglicus Bartholomaeus
Yes Virginia, there was an earlier Batman: Stephen Batman (1542-1584).
Batman uppon Bartholome : his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and ammended: with such additions as are requisite, unto every several booke: taken foorth of the most approved authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie by Anglicus Bartholomaeus
Yes Virginia, there was an earlier Batman: Stephen Batman (1542-1584).
141SylviaC
Dear Dead Days by Charles Addams
142Schmerguls
//Days//
4469. Days of Defiance Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War, by Maury Klein (read 8 Aug 2008)
4469. Days of Defiance Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War, by Maury Klein (read 8 Aug 2008)
144bookwoman247
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147bookwoman247
//books// or //passion//
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
151hazeljune
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough.
This book is a little gem, a novelette, so unlike Colleen!!!
This book is a little gem, a novelette, so unlike Colleen!!!
152SylviaC
Two Fat Ladies: Gastronomic Adventures (with Motorbike and Sidecar) by Jennifer Paterson
Picked it up from the post office today.
Picked it up from the post office today.
154mirrordrum
#152 that was a marvelous show on PBS, iirc
//from//
Scenes from My Life by Dame Judi Dench
i dabble in it all the time. it cheers me up.
//from//
Scenes from My Life by Dame Judi Dench
i dabble in it all the time. it cheers me up.
155hazeljune
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
157Schmerguls
//Quotations//
4058. a Book of Legal Lists The Best and Worst in American Law with 100 Court and Judge Trivia Quotations, by Bernard Schwartz (read 13 Aug 2005)
I don't know why it is numbered #156 , the same as the preceding entry
4058. a Book of Legal Lists The Best and Worst in American Law with 100 Court and Judge Trivia Quotations, by Bernard Schwartz (read 13 Aug 2005)
I don't know why it is numbered #156 , the same as the preceding entry
158bookwoman247
//book//
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
#157 Shchmerguls: It's ok. You're #157, now. It happened to me once, too, and I learned that it happens, sometimes, when you edit your response.
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
#157 Shchmerguls: It's ok. You're #157, now. It happened to me once, too, and I learned that it happens, sometimes, when you edit your response.
160LynnB
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan. Read earlier this year.
162bookwoman247
//bookmobile//
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
*I read this sometime last year, and was a bit disappointed. It may have been that my expectations were not in synch with the book.
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
*I read this sometime last year, and was a bit disappointed. It may have been that my expectations were not in synch with the book.
163mirrordrum
//camel//
How the Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling
read about a gazillion times when i was very young as part of the just so stories. it is published separately.
How the Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling
read about a gazillion times when i was very young as part of the just so stories. it is published separately.
166PaperbackPirate
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan - I love this book! I just bought the sequel so I'm looking forward to rereading part 1. Dang, it's probably been 15 years since I read it.
167mirrordrum
//her//
Kind Are Her Answers by Mary Renault
the only book by MR that i only read once and that in the late 60s.
Kind Are Her Answers by Mary Renault
the only book by MR that i only read once and that in the late 60s.
168PaperbackPirate
Scorpions! Answers to Frequently Asked Questions by James W. Cornett
173Schmerguls
//Moral//
4042. William Jennings Bryan II. Progressive Politician and Moral Statesman 1909-1915, by Paolo E. Coletta (read 4 July 2005)
4042. William Jennings Bryan II. Progressive Politician and Moral Statesman 1909-1915, by Paolo E. Coletta (read 4 July 2005)
175LynnB
Reflections on the Alaska Native Experience: Selected articles and speeches by Roy M. Huhndorf. Read in July this year.
176ellenflorman
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182LynnB
Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani. Read last year.
184ellenflorman
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
186JamesBoswell
//bones//
The art of numbring by speaking-rods, vulgarly termed Nepeirs bones by which the most difficult parts of arithmetick, as multiplication, division, and extracting of roots both square and cube, are performed with incredible celerity and exactness (without any charge to the memory) by addition and subtraction only by William Leybourn
An early mathematics book (1667)
The art of numbring by speaking-rods, vulgarly termed Nepeirs bones by which the most difficult parts of arithmetick, as multiplication, division, and extracting of roots both square and cube, are performed with incredible celerity and exactness (without any charge to the memory) by addition and subtraction only by William Leybourn
An early mathematics book (1667)
188mirrordrum
//art//
Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos: Discovering a New Aesthetic of Art, Science, and Nature by John Briggs
read in the late 90s
Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos: Discovering a New Aesthetic of Art, Science, and Nature by John Briggs
read in the late 90s
193ellenflorman
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
195hazeljune
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer
197hazeljune
The Source by James A. Michener
200siubhank
Just For Kicks by Susan Andersen
205PaperbackPirate
Softies: Simple Instructions for 25 Plush Pals by Therese Laskey
210ellenflorman
The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
212morwen04
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters by Richard Bernstein
Read a few years ago, it's actually a really well written look at how the West and the East view sex and each other's opinion on sex, but yes I did get quite a few odd looks for reading it.
Read a few years ago, it's actually a really well written look at how the West and the East view sex and each other's opinion on sex, but yes I did get quite a few odd looks for reading it.
213hazeljune
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
216jacqueline065
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
218SylviaC
The King of the Copper Mountains by Paul Biegel
223jacqueline065
This Fire Down in My Soul by J. D. Mason
226siubhank
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down by Marcia Muller (one of my favorite authors)
229Schmerguls
//Till//
3228. Straight On Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham, by Mary S. Lovell (read 9 Aug 1999)
3228. Straight On Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham, by Mary S. Lovell (read 9 Aug 1999)
232SylviaC
//dead//
Bring Out Your Dead : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 by J. H. Powell
Bring Out Your Dead : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 by J. H. Powell
239hazeljune
The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
242mirrordrum
//eyes//
The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes by Andy Karr
just got it. :)
The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes by Andy Karr
just got it. :)
243LynnB
Heaven Eyes by David Almond
244hazeljune
Leave Her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams
246jacqueline065
The Lady, her Lover and Her Lord by T. D. Jakes
248jacqueline065
Lord of the Shadows by Darren Shan
249SylviaC
The Court of Silver Shadows by Beatrice Brandon
250hazeljune
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
251ellenflorman
Silver Streak by Jim Rogers
253JamesBoswell
//silver//
The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations performed by way of distillation together with the description of the chiefest furnaces & vessels used by ancient and moderne chymists : also, A discourse of divers spagiricall experiments and curiosities, and the anatomy of gold and silver with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof, together with their vertues : all which are contained in VI bookes by John French
An early Chemistry book (1653).
The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations performed by way of distillation together with the description of the chiefest furnaces & vessels used by ancient and moderne chymists : also, A discourse of divers spagiricall experiments and curiosities, and the anatomy of gold and silver with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof, together with their vertues : all which are contained in VI bookes by John French
An early Chemistry book (1653).
255hazeljune
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
257Schmerguls
//War//
836, The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War, by Correlli Barnett (read 30 Jan 1966)
836, The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War, by Correlli Barnett (read 30 Jan 1966)
259bookwoman247
//American//
Mexican Voices, American Dreams an Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States by Marilyn Davis
*One of the stories in this book features a former neighbor of mine. I read the book years ago. I hadn't known that our neighbor was featured, and was surprised when her name and the details of her story left no doubt as to who it was.
Mexican Voices, American Dreams an Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the United States by Marilyn Davis
*One of the stories in this book features a former neighbor of mine. I read the book years ago. I hadn't known that our neighbor was featured, and was surprised when her name and the details of her story left no doubt as to who it was.
260SylviaC
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
263hazeljune
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
265ellenflorman
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
272JamesBoswell
//future//
Nevv Englands prospect· A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called Nevv England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager by William Wood
An early book about New England (1635). "Nevv" is not a misspelling; double v's were used instead of the letter w.
Nevv Englands prospect· A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called Nevv England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager by William Wood
An early book about New England (1635). "Nevv" is not a misspelling; double v's were used instead of the letter w.
273PaperbackPirate
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck - read in 1990
274Schmerguls
//Future//
4667. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, by Mark Tushnet (read 1 Feb 2010)
4667. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, by Mark Tushnet (read 1 Feb 2010)
276SylviaC
//from//
Four-Foot Cucumbers, Juvenile Delinquents & Frogs from the Sky! : snippets of life in Victorian Canada by Crystal Fulton
Four-Foot Cucumbers, Juvenile Delinquents & Frogs from the Sky! : snippets of life in Victorian Canada by Crystal Fulton
279bookwoman247
The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848 - 1889 by Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas
* 1848 - 1889 is part of the title, but, no matter what I tried, I couldn't make the touchstone work when I included the date.
* 1848 - 1889 is part of the title, but, no matter what I tried, I couldn't make the touchstone work when I included the date.
